lunch your truth and face your lunch

vietnamese subs
from: Bale (kingsway n fraser)
price: $3.50? each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: hothouse flowers
comments: I visited my folks today. and they just got a new van.  fun!

and me ma had:

chicken salad
comments: what's fun about this new van is the stow n go seats.  it's great for really tall people, because you can open a foot well for them.

at last, my lunch has come along

vietnamese subs
from: BaLe
price: $3.50 each?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: etta james
comments: in this chapter, our hero begins his final week at the office that has kept him warm and dry for almost three years. soon to move onto greater spaces and shorter walks, our hero traces the steps of his early days in the suite of hoots.

I'm in lunch with that song.

vietnamese subs
from: Bale
price: about $10
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the replacements
comments: epic monday today. bought a car. insured it for the day. put the top down. cruised the beach. went to aircare. passed. insured it for a year. played borderlands 2.  end.

bonus weekend post!

vietnamese sub
from: Bale
price: $3.50
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
comments: I met up with eric this weekend to throw the ol frisbee around. we also et some food and played on the playground. click my lunch to see me bouncing on the playground.  and now i'd like to say something about all these fancy restaurants that sell $10+ "bahn mi" sandwiches.  I can get 3 of these (the amazing bbq pork one, for example) from Bale... and they are just as good. f'reals.

and eric had:

pancit palabok
comments: he got this at Goldilocks. it was tasty. whilst eating, we also watched some wasps killing a caterpillar. crazy. now click eric's lunch to see him planking at the playground. perhaps you'd prefer to see his spiderman impression?

lunch, lunch, they got it late in the evening

vietnamese subs
from: troung giang
price: $3.50 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: deep purple
comments: there were a lot of cakes in the office today. crazy. so much cake. click to see one. it was made by a new employee. and addendum to her resume, it seems.

and alex had:

her birthday!
comments: click to see the cake that the guys got for her. she pointed out that 'bonne anniversaire' is a little more fitting for a cake. hahah. it's the thought that counts. in this case, it's the chocolate that counts.

and eric had:

samwiches too
comments: click eric's lunch to see monty giving him a high five... like a boss.

and ian had:

stepho's
comments: fancy ian and rob got their food from way over in the west end. so fancy. click to see the fiat vancouver dealership. that reflection in the window won't exist much longer.

staring past the one who could lunch you like a Christ

vietnamese sandwiches
from: empress bakery
price: $3 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: rheostatics
comments: no more sick. but not at work either. it's monday, after all. and I made a bunch random wigglies, finally. but you've already seen some. click this lunch to see the purple dragon martial arts school. I didn't realize it was so close to me. but I've heard of it before due to this interesting video that my coworker chris once made me watch. maybe interesting is the wrong word. it's something, though. that's for sure. (by the way, egg nog cookies aren't as great at they sound. really, they just taste like those 'nilla wafer cookies)

go canucks go?

vietnamese subs
from: Bale
price: $9
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the city
comments: so, I think the world knows what happened today. the canucks lost the finals of the stanley cup and the city showed what great losers they were. literally... big time losers. click my lunch to see the crowd on georgia street while the game was on. well before any destruction started. see how happy everyone was before some losers started ruining it all? big thanks to zoltan and françoise for giving us a birds eye view of the celebration. check tomorrow's blog to see what went down when things turned ugly. ... ok, I'll give one preview. it's a 5M gif.. let it load.

someone told me there's a girl out there with lunch in her eyes, and flowers in her hair

vietnamese subs
from: Bale
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: led zeppelin
comments: I had errands to run at lunch today. so sadly, I did not dine with bill. it's ok. I'll get over it. what I had to do was reinsure my car. this lead to me getting new plates! wanna see? click me lunch.

and new in the office today was:

Sal!
comments: sal is katie's roommate's dog. he's very cute. this is him at my desk. in other news, I finally got a new point-n-shoot camera. this one's a Sony, and it's kinda like it was invented for my blog. it has a food setting. awesome. it also does some crazy hi-tech stuff where you 'sweep' the camera to make panoramics AND 3D photos! to properly view the 3D, you need a TV, but I can make wigglies out of them. you'll see. click to see one of the panoramas all wigglied up. it's also got a 10 photo/sec 'burst' mode. I do love burst modes.

and bill had:

from from Lunchbox
comments: the 3D setting on the camera does crazy things to objects that are moving through the frame. click to see Remick on his way to work. I didn't freeze him like that, or make the cars crazy. that's just the new cam. stay tuned for many many more wigglies (Russ!).

uh... merry christmas everyone

vietnamese subs
from: BaLe
price: $3.75 each?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: ok, so I'm way behind on my posts now. perhaps it's already 2011, but LATV is still gonna wish y'all a merry christmas and all that. so there. click to see the guest lunch.

for lunch or money money money

3 vietnamese subs
from: truong giang (on hastings @ dunlevy)
price: $3 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: U2
comments: I tried the closest vietnamese subs place to the office. it's really good. I'll go there again. click my lunch to see the little world that exists on the counter of this shop.

and gavin had:

2 subs
comments: gavin brought his trailer today. I didn't know why until the end of the day. turns out he was moving a foosball table for us. so I helped. it was a friend of the boss's who was donating a table for us to use. and it turned out to be a tornado table! a twister 2 hooray! click to see our foos room now. looks way more foosawesome, huh?

and richerd had:

a veggie sub
comments: this place also makes veggie subs. a rare sight in the viet-sub world, I thought. click to see the foosmen ready to play.

there ain't no way I'm ever gonna lunch you

vietnamese subs
from: BaLe
price: $9
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: meatloaf
comments: I lunched alone today. it's been a while. bill has gone to PAX. he can go eat lunch with jason. so I ate in the park. such a nice day for it. and of course, while in the Bale area, I went up on the parkade rooftop. click to see a wiggly of the bc place roof construction. then after work, I met mike for dinner. of course, I found another rooftop to take pics from.

bonus: did y'all hear about the grey whale in vancouver the other day?? well, Meighan from vancouver aquarium went out and got some pics. and I took a couple of her pics, and made this wiggly. thanks megz!

yo I'm stayin' where we gettin' crazy lunch

vietnamese subs
from: BaLe
price: $8.25 for 3
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: handsome boy modeling school
comments: today I wandered over to BaLe, got some subs and wandered down to crab park to eat and take photos. cuz I got a new camera. but it's an old camera that I tried before. and now I gotta return the camera. cuz I saw it online for almost $200 less. crazy. anyway, click my lunch to see a lightly out of focus police car overheating.

you say you lunch me and that's a fact

vietnamese subs
from: Bale (kingsway)
price: $3.25 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the clash
comments: grabbed some subs and went to make a gigapan today. click my lunch to see it. it's nice and wide. although, my focus is still not that sharp. I will work on that for the next one.

and erin had:

the very same
comments: these subs are good. but not perfect. I had one at Pho Central on davie st. on the weekend. they were very good there. click to see some flowers I made wiggly while waiting for the gigapan to take its 200 pics.

you know I lunch you so, baby please don't go

vietnamese subs
from: empress bakery
price: $2.75 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: them, featuring van morrison
comments: I got the 6:15 am ferry from saltspring this morning. a great easter weekend which also happened to be stu's birthday! I love that pic. check out the shirt he got for his birthday. and the way jughead's face lines up with the candle. funny. click my lunch to see a wiggly of Salt Spring Island's famous Saturday Market. this was the first of the year. I also made a gigapan from this vantage point. not the best pan I've made. the focus is a bit soft. oh well. I also tried to make one of my sister's yard. I found it's difficult to gigapan when kids are running everywhere.

lunch, brother, lunch. say brother lunch's traveling salvation show

vietnamese subs
from: BaLe
price: $2.75 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: neil diamond
comments: going to chinatown for subs usually ends up with me on the top of a parking lot taking photos. today was no different. click to see a southeast view from the lot I was on. I also made this wiggly. it took a lot of work to make that one. but it works. I like the gulls. they get rather agitated when up on their roof.

check ignition and may god's lunch be with you

vietnamese subs (dac biet)
from: Bale (on kingsway)
price: $3.50 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: david bowie
comments: the bale at kingsway and fraser expanded considerably. now they make their own bread. the bread is delicious. it's also 10 inches long. this means I don't need 3 sandwiches. 2 suffice. I will remember that for next time. if you think you see deanna troi... you are probably just imagining it. click to see a house with a fish on it.

and I also had:

generic 'dayquils'
comments: the cold still lingers. these pills make me not feel it. click to see a trailer that totally looks like its in a movie and about to blow up.

I need a luncher

vietnameses subs
from: the empress bakery
price: $3.75 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: finlay quaye
comments: if you are wondering about this lunch photo, yes - that's bob ross in the background. he's painting happy little trees and such. and no he's not photoshopped into that pic. my sandwich was watching him paint. speaking of sandwiches and celebrities, you gotta check out this awesome tumblr! ok now, click to see what the russians have done with science world. ok, there's not much to see. wonder what they got inside??

lunch and hate tattooed across the knuckles of his hands

leftover congee and vietnamese sandwich
from: kwong chow and empress bakery
price: free. it's leftover
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the clash
comments: well, looky here! I'm not working, and I'm falling behind on my posts. what a surprise, huh? yeah. anyway, click the food to see some strange olympic building. they're everywhere man! I cannae get away from them!

for now I need your hidden lunch

vietnamese subs
from: empress bakery
price: $2.75 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: leonard cohen
comments: today I had vietnamese subs. and... oh wait! the bullitt car chase is on tv right now! gotta watch! .... wow. that is clearly the best 11 minutes in film history. why is it so good? I'm not sure. a mustang wins, after all... why would I like that? maybe it's all about the bad guys... because they drive the coolest car on earth? because they never talk whilst driving? because they open windows before shooting at McQueen? because they lose at least 5 hubcaps? or maybe it's because they race past the same green beetle over and over again. or the white firebird. maybe it's lalo shifrin's car chase music, that cuts out right when they decide to stomp on it. I dunno. but I have yet to see a more awesome car chase. and don't tell me Blues Brothers or Ronin or anything else is better. it's not.

and erin had:

no car chase to rant about.
comments: so today's wigglies are just shots from around the city. nothing special.

it's only lunch afterall

vietnamese subs
from: empress bakery
price: $3.25 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: indigo girls
comments: so I'm still posting wigglies from christmas. the linked one here is how my sister's front yard looked when we got up christmas morning. ok, maybe this was a bit later than when I got up. it was a 6:30 morning for me. later on that day, the fog settled lower than us. have a looksee